Yu Qiuping quickly headed north with 2,000 men and stopped at Daozhi Village, 600 meters away from Norada. The people of Daozhi Village have long since fled because of the troops that came and went before. There weren't a few people left in the whole village.

Akihei climbed onto the roof of one of the tallest three-story buildings in the village, and looked northeast to see the Asai Army and the Rokkaku Army fighting in the corridor on the east bank of the Edo River and the west bank of the Uso River. Asai Ryojin is trying to command his subordinates to move closer to Norata's side, while the Hexagonal Army commanded by Yamaoka Keitaka is trying to outflank the Asai Army. The Asai army took control of a bridge over the Edo River and seemed to intend to retreat southwest through the Edo River and flee to Norada.

"Defend the village right here!" Yu Qiuping decided, "Put up the banner of Sansheng Tortoise Koryo and tell Lord Asai Ryo-jin to retreat to this side!" ”

After the herald rode away, Yu Qiuping immediately asked his subordinates to familiarize themselves with the terrain of the village and prepare for the deployment.

"The location of the village is good, blocking the way from the river to the wild fields." Yu Qiuping stood on the roof and looked around at the terrain, "There is a small forest on the right, and the paddy fields of the village on the left, both of which are not easy to pass. As long as we hold this place, the Hexagons will have no choice but to avoid the front and take a long detour in addition to attacking us. Yu Qiuping calculated, "If they find a long way to take a detour, some of us will go back to defend and the other part will pursue." In order to get around they can't spread out the battle formation, we can cause them a lot of trouble! ”

"There are two main roads in the village, one running north-south and the other east-west, each about 60 zhang long. In the four areas separated by two roads, there are many houses for ordinary people. Yu Qiuping began to arrange, "The second reserve team is responsible for the defense of the main road. Now go and demolish the houses, make improvised wooden fences and horse bars, and put them on the main road. Dig a few more trenches at the same time and fortify them layer by layer! The goal is to make the main road unwalkable! Be fast! Kibei, Hanbei, Brother of Erbei, I'll leave this to you! ”

After Sanada Masayuki and Matsushita Kamisaki and Erbei's officers were ordered to leave, Yu Qiuping began to arrange the content of the street battle again.

"Big brother, Nabe Nosuke, brothers of Ichibei, when the street fights, the Northeast and Northwest regions make us the main position to hold. The two of you are in charge of one, each with 500 people from the three reserves to familiarize themselves with the structure of the house, and the auxiliaries also let them find some sticks and flatteners and the like to join the battle! ”

Maeda Toshiie and Honda Nabe Nosuke also immediately went separately with the two officers to familiarize themselves with the houses and paths in the village.

Yu Qiuping set up the temporary headquarters on the three-story restaurant southwest of the central intersection of the village. All 100 archers were also mobilized to the restaurant for intensive use. He also asked the heads of the various units to pay attention to their flags, because in street fighting, it is difficult to transmit information, and only the flags can be relied on to convey orders.

In less than six minutes, Yuqiuping's village defense proposal was completed. After completing the deployment, Sanada Masayuki and his 500 men were transferred back to serve as reserves. He divided two groups of 10 archers and 40 ashigaru, including 10 warriors, and asked the two ashigaru generals to take them to the woods and farmland to keep an eye on them.

At this time, Ryojin Asai also fled into the village in embarrassment with the remnants of less than a thousand people. However, as soon as I entered the village, I found that the avenue in front of me had been cut into potholes, and there were wooden planks and fences all over the horizontal, and it was difficult to walk at all. Maeda Toshiie hurriedly guided them back down the alley, and after a brief pause behind Yu Qiuping's headquarters, he arranged for them to go to Asai Nagamasa's horse seal to obey orders. As soon as Ryo Asai walked with his front foot, Yamaoka Keiraka came with his back foot.

Itai Kamitsuki was an ashigaru general of the Yamaoka family, and he was always known for his bravery in battle, and his sword skills were well-known even in Minami-Omi. In the raid on the Asai Army just now. It was he who came to the front line and beheaded the head of the hundred hundred families, causing the hundred hundred to collapse directly, thus breaking up the formation of other small wealthy families, and the head of the family also praised him on the battlefield, which is the supreme glory of being a samurai. After that, they immediately crossed the river and chased Asai Ryo himself, killing all the Ashigaru who had fallen behind along the way, and Asai Ryō fled south in embarrassment. The head of the family said that as long as he killed according to this momentum, he could directly collapse the main formation of the Asai family.

However, when they chased the small village of Daozhi Village, they had to stop.

"I'll go! Who dug the village like this! Rushing in front of Itai to build a look at the unrecognizable dirt road in front of him, he was helpless for a while. On every fence on the dirt road, behind the wooden planks, there are Asai family ashigaru people who are waiting for each other, and it seems that they are not good stubble.

"What are you doing! Attack together, we must hurry to the battlefield! Seeing that the team was stagnant, Yamaoka Keitaka personally rode his horse to the front line to urge, "The Nagahara family is in charge of the house on the left, and the Nagata family is in charge of the house on the right!" Our Yamaoka family attacks the front street! He shouted and waved his whip, "Quick! Fast! Fast! ”

Under the urging of Yamaoka Keitaka, the ashigaru people of the Rokkaku family immediately rushed up and invaded the village from all directions. As a samurai of the Yamaoka family, Itai Kamizuki immediately led his men to attack the enemy defending the streets. The streets were not wide, and only about ten people were allowed to walk side by side, which was the number of people who were put into the attack. They rushed to the defense line and began to try to move the stones and fences that were vertical and vertical, and the Asai family ashigaru behind the fence immediately stabbed and affected their handling, but the simple cooperation was not very tacit, and the spears that were stabbed out were sparse, and only occasionally someone was stabbed down. Itai Kamitsuki noticed that the Ashigaru of the Asai family seemed to be attacking without fear through the fence, because the Rokkaku Ashigaru had already committed to removing the obstacles and had not attacked them.

The Asashi families didn't realize that they were standing too close to the fence, and the fence had lost its meaning of cover. Itai Kamitsuki seized an opportunity, rushed forward with a forward roll, stabbed three times in succession, crossed the gap between the fences, stabbed three Asai Ieshigaru to death, and pushed the fence diagonally, pressing the Asai Ieshigaru behind the fence back again and again. Rokkaku Ieshigaru took the opportunity to rush up, stabbed several Asai Ieshigaru behind the fence, stepped on the fence, and continued to move forward.

However, before Ichijo called for the people behind him to follow, he heard the sound of sharp arrows being fired. Almost all based on the instinct of being born and dying for more than ten years, licking the blood with the head of the knife, Itai Kamitsuki bowed his head suddenly, and the helmet on his head was shot out by two feather arrows at once, and the three subordinates who followed him were immediately shot to the ground by more than a dozen feather arrows. He glanced quickly at the direction in which the arrow was fired, a tall building in the center of the village. There were dozens of archers shooting, half against themselves, and half at the army gathered outside the village.

"Bring the plank, the door panel!" Itai Kamitsuki hid behind the sign of a small roadside shop, dodging the rain of arrows, beckoning his men to hurry up and come over with the covering gear. At this time, the archers of the Rokkaku family also rushed to the entrance of the village and began to suppress the fire of the archers of the Asai family, and for a while the threat of arrow rain was not so great, and the Rokkaku Army Ashigaru attacked again.

However, the farther you go to the front of the street, the more resistance you encounter. From time to time, from time to time in the buildings on both sides, the Ashigaru of the Asai family came out and attacked the flanks and backs of the attacking troops with various weapons. And the archers on the tall buildings are becoming more and more of a threat to them.

"What are the people in the houses on both sides grinding! Why is there no one to cover our flanks! In a rage, Ikai ran back to the entrance of the village, asking several other Ashigaru generals to reinforce the street fighting offensive on both flanks. Just now, several of Itai Kamizuki's men died in a surprise attack in the side residents' houses, and Itai Kamizuki also sent people to pursue him, but the effect was not good. "I've had a lot of brothers die!"

"Damn! Do you think we want to? Do you think we don't have any dead people? Your brother is human life, isn't ours? Several of the Ashigaru generals in charge of the flank attack scolded, "Look there! ”

Itai looked along their arms, and saw a violent fight in the front room of the living quarters on either side. Moments later, another body of the Hexagon family was thrown out of the window of the house. The rokkaku family Ashigaru who was watching around looked at the half-person-tall corpses stacked in front of the door, and was stunned that no one dared to continue the attack.

"Who? Did you do it all alone? What is there to be afraid of! Itai Kamitsuki drew a knife in his hand and walked angrily towards the house to the east. Itai-sama is right, what are you afraid of! Another general named Junichiro Shimada is also famous for his martial arts, and he also drew his sword in his hand very majestically and walked towards the house to the west, "Lord Isai, let's see who will solve the enemy first!" ”

"Good!"

Itai Kamitsuki strode over to the pile of corpses to the east, snorted coldly, and danced a sword flower under the expectant gazes of the Rokkaku Warriors around him.

"Look! Itai-sama! "Some of the boys in these rooms have taken it!" The Rokkaku family ashigaru suddenly cheered, which couldn't help but make Itai Kamizuki's blood boil. Such a feeling of attention is the dream of every samurai who has a great name for martial arts.

"Who's inside! Dare to use your name! It's convenient for the military to be recorded in my credit book! Itai Kamitsuki shouted proudly, and the surrounding Rokkaku Gunashigaru immediately burst into cheers!

"Honda Nabe's help." An emotionless male voice sounded inside. Although he tried to express a sense of majesty, it was not difficult to hear that this was still a half-old child.

"Still a little furry kid?" Itai sneered and walked into the house with square steps, "Hurry up and get out, don't kill the child." ”

"Please advise." Honda Nabenosuke was dressed in his father's broken foot, ignoring the other party's provocation at all, just holding a blood-stained knife and silently responding.

"Good boy!" Itai Kamitsuki saw that the other party's attitude was neither humble nor arrogant, and suddenly became a little interested. He looked at the cramped room, there was not much room to move, and it was estimated that it was a competition of strength.

He took a big step forward, took a deep breath, and held the knife in both hands, which was a powerful and heavy slash. Honda Nabenosuke didn't dodge either, holding the knife horizontally with his right hand to block, and the moment the blade collided, he slammed his wrist in reverse, and the huge force suddenly shook Itai Tsukuki back again and again.

"That's a lot of strength with one hand! Is it a monster! Itai Kamitsuki was taken aback, the tiger's mouth and wrist of both hands were shaken and painful, but the other party did not move. The huge disparity in strength suddenly shattered his psychology, this man who had experienced more than a dozen battles, but at this moment, even the courage to face the battle was taken out of his body. He understood that the child standing in front of him might not be a samurai, but a monster!

Honda Nabenosuke's face was still cold and murderous, and step by step, he slowly walked towards Itai Kamitsuku. Every time there was a footstep, it was as if the bell of death was ringing, and Ichii Kamizuki watched Honda Nabenosuke approach with a somewhat dull gaze, but it was difficult to raise his spirit to face the battle no matter what.

Suddenly, in the west, there was the scream of Junichiro Shimada, and an uninhibited male voice complained, "It's not cool to use a katana!" If I could hold my big gun, hundreds, I could swallow them all! ”

Junichiro he... Is it dead?

The next thing Ikai Kamiki heard was his own wail.

"Are you Nagahara family and Nagata family fools! If you can't take this house, let's hit the other rooms first! There are hundreds of houses here, and there are not necessarily weirdos everywhere! ”

Knowing that the offensive was not going well, Yamaoka Keitaka personally came to the front line and began to command, and asked the Rokkaku family to attack the village from all directions. However, the Asai family in the village took advantage of the familiarity with the terrain in advance to resist step by step, making it difficult for the Rokkaku Army to move an inch. And the defense on the frontal official road is equally tenacious. The non-stop bow and arrow upstairs is even more of a headache.

In desperation, Yamaoka Keitaka asked the Einsatzgruppen to make a detour from the terrain on both sides of the woods and farmland, but was discovered by the surveillance troops arranged by Yu Qiuping, and then Sanada Masayuki rushed to the paddy field with some archers and shot a large number of people down in the muddy paddy field. He also sent people to the forest to constantly harass them, and the roundabout troops of the Yamaoka family were miserable.

There were more than 4,000 people in the Hexagonal Army, but at this moment, they were blocked by 2,000 Asai troops in Daozhi Village, relying on the village, and it was difficult to move an inch. Yamaoka Keitaka was forced to abandon his plan to quickly capture the village, and instead let the main force continue to attack to contain the main force of the Asai army, leaving the forces of the Nagata family and the Nagahara family to take a long detour.

"Send a messenger to report to His Highness Rokkaku, our troops are blocked in Daozhi Village, and I am afraid that we will not be able to reach the battlefield in time. Previously defeated the Hyakuyaya and the Mitamura family, and in front of him were 2,000 people from the Asai family's direct army. Our department promises that we will contain the enemy forces and prevent them from evacuating smoothly! Yamaoka Keitaka had no choice but to send a herald to Rokkaku Yoshixian.

The crisis behind the Asai Army was resolved.

"It's finally held, and it's still okay." Yu Qiuping looked at the Hexagonal Army that had changed its policy and breathed a sigh of relief.